Anita Anand

Anita Anand is a writer and literary translator from Montreal. Her novel A Convergence of Solitudes won a 2023 Ippy (Independent Publishers’) gold medal, was nominated for the 2023 Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award, and was a finalist for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Foreword Indies Award. She is also the author of Swing in the House and Other Stories, which won the 2015 QWF Concordia University First Book Prize. Her translation of Nirliit was nominated for the John Glasscoe Award in 2018. Anand has also translated two books by Fanie Demeules, known in English as Lightness and Mukbang. As the Andes Disappeared, her translation of Là où je me terre by the late Caroline Dawson, was nominated for the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.